Show discoverer of the norway oat dead south royalton Royal too vt feb 14 david W It amsdell famous aa abo discoverer of the norway oat is dead at the home of bis niece mrs E L fish aged 71 beare he was born in washington vt and aben n young man engaged in in 1801 procured be from government a package of oat leeila in which be found a peculiar oat which on development ho named the norway he cultivated this and from its cale a fortune which runa into abo and he apont in advert leing tho oat all over the world he met with buel feea and died comparatively poor |